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Johann Chrysostom Magnenus (French ''Jean Chrysostôme Magnen'', c. 1590 – c. 1679〔 these are the dates given in ''Dictionary of Scientific Biography''; Güsgens (1910) estimated his birth at close to 1600 and his death close to 1670.〕) was a physician and advocate of atomism. He was born at Luxeuil in Burgundy.〔 http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/magnenus.html〕 He took a medical degree at the University of Dôle.〔Francesco Bottin, ''Models of the History of Philosophy: From its origins in the Renaissance to the "historia philosophica"'' (1993), pp. 133–4; (Google Books ).〕 He joined the medical faculty at the University of Pavia, where he published his scientific work ''Democritus reviviscens'' in 1646. He cited Daniel Sennert, but his ideas were distinct from Sennert's and those of Democritus. He considered that atoms were the indivisible parts of three of the classical elements: earth, water and fire.〔Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers (editors), ''The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-century Philosophy'', Volume 1 (2003), p. 556; (Google Books ).〕 His other writings include ''De tabaco'' (1648), on medical usage and effects of tobacco, and ''De manna liber singularis'' (1648). He apparently prescribed tobacco syrup as a standard remedy for his patients. ==References== *J. Güsgens, ''Die Naturphilosophie des Johannes Chryostomos Magnenus'', Bonn, 1910. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Johann Chrysostom Magnenus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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